During the 8th month of 1867, two sailors from the British ship ''Icarus'' were killed in the pleasure quarters of [[Nagasaki]]. Assassins from [[Tosa han]] were suspected, however the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Bakufu]] was unable to apprehend the killers.
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During the summer of 1867, two sailors from the British ship ''Icarus'' were killed in the pleasure quarters of [[Nagasaki]]. Assassins from [[Tosa han]] were suspected, however the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Bakufu]] was unable to apprehend the killers.
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[[Harry Parkes|Sir Harry Parkes]], the head of the British Legation in [[Edo]], arrived shortly thereafter. He pressured the [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] to find and capture the suspects, and even went so far as to travel to Tosa han himself to further the investigation. Unfortunately, the killers were never found.
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[[Harry Parkes|Sir Harry Parkes]], the head of the [[British Legation]] in [[Edo]], arrived during the 8th month of the same year. Hearing of the incident, he pressured the [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] to find and capture the suspects, and even went so far as to travel to Tosa han himself to further the investigation. Unfortunately, the killers were never found.
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This incident was yet another that highlighted the Bakufu's lack of strong control of the country to the British legation.
==References==
==References==
* Daniels, Gordon. ''The British Role in the Meiji Restoration: A Re-Interpretive Note'', Modern Asian Studies, II, 4 (1968)
* Daniels, Gordon. ''The British Role in the Meiji Restoration: A Re-Interpretive Note'', Modern Asian Studies, II, 4 (1968)
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